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These Altcoins Defy Weekly Market-Wide Crash While Bitcoin Tests $109K: Weekend Watch

These Altcoins Defy Weekly Market-Wide Crash While Bitcoin Tests $109K: Weekend Watch

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2025-08-31 09:38:45
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While Bitcoin flirts with the $109K threshold, a handful of altcoins are staging a stunning rebellion against the broader market meltdown.

Market Mavericks

Select cryptocurrencies are bucking the brutal downturn—surging while everything else bleeds red. They're not just surviving; they're thriving amid the chaos.

Bitcoin's Pressure Test

BTC's push toward $109K creates massive gravitational pull across crypto markets. Yet these specific alts demonstrate unprecedented resilience—defying typical correlation patterns.

The Great Decoupling

While traditional crypto assets move in lockstep with Bitcoin's volatility, these outliers chart their own course. Their performance isn't just impressive—it's fundamentally challenging portfolio theories.

Weekend warriors watch closely as these tokens write their own rules. Because nothing says 'healthy market' like a handful of coins mooning while the rest crash and burn—classic crypto efficiency at work.

BTC Stopped at $109.5K

Following last Friday’s price pump to over $117,000 after Jerome Powell’s speech, Bitcoin calmed at around $115,000 during the previous weekend until Sunday evening, when massive volatility reached the market. In the matter of just an hour or so, BTC plunged hard by several grand to under $111,000.

The bulls tried to recover some ground on Monday but were quickly stopped at $113,500. The bears seemed fully in control as they drove the cryptocurrency to under $109,000 on Tuesday morning.

Bitcoin initiated another leg up that was once again halted at $113,500 on Thursday. In the following hours, the asset lost all of its momentum and plummeted to $107,200 on Saturday morning, which became a new seven-week low.

It bounced off to $109,500 earlier today, but it couldn’t keep climbing. As of now, it struggles to remain above $109,000 after the latest rejection. Its market cap is back to $2.170 trillion, while its dominance over the alts has stalled at 56% on CG.

BTCUSD. Source: TradingView

BTCUSD. Source: TradingView

Weekly Moves

The weekly charts are quite grim for almost all altcoins. ethereum has dumped below $4,500 after a 6.3% decline since last Sunday. XRP fights for $2.80 following a similar retracement. DOGE, TRX, ADA

In contrast, there’s CRO. The asset has skyrocketed by 81% since last Sunday and now trades close to $0.30. Its most significant surge drove it to $0.38 mid-week following a massive adoption announcement by the TRUMP Media Group.

The other two larger-cap alts in the green are POL (13%) and Pi Network’s PI token (7%).

The total crypto market cap has shed roughly $200 billion weekly and is down to $3.850 trillion on CG.

Cryptocurrency Market Overview. Source: QuantifyCrypto

Cryptocurrency Market Overview. Source: QuantifyCrypto

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